Final Call for Papers

HotWeb is a forum that brings
together researchers and practitioners interested in the design,
implementation, and evaluation of Internet systems and applications.

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer
Society and the IEEE-CS Technical Committee on the Internet, the
workshop seeks to act as a conduit for the presentation of novel
approaches used in support of performance, scalability, and security of
Internet applications, including Web searching and indexing, content
distribution and delivery networks, Web services, and edge and grid
computing.

Particular areas of interest
include, but are not limited to:

Content delivery
architectures

Peer-to-Peer systems

Support for mobile and
wireless systems

Web caching and replication

Edge services and dynamic
content delivery

Multimedia content
distribution

Overlay networks

Content placement and
request routing

Measurement studies of
deployed systems

Security and privacy

Wide-area upload and
content gathering

Novel web-based
applications

Web/database integration

Information retrieval and
searching

Electronic commerce

Internet telephony

Submission Instructions:

Papers describing timely
research contributions in HotWeb's areas of interest are solicited.
Papers reporting on initial results as well as papers discussing mature
research projects or case studies of deployed systems are equally sought
out.

Submitted papers must be
neither previously published nor under review by another workshop,
conference or journal.

Only electronic submissions in
PDF will be accepted. Submitted papers must be written in English, must
be no longer than 12 pages, must render without error using standard PDF
viewing tools, must print on US-Letter-sized paper, and must conform
to standard IEEE conference submission guidelines. Latex/Word templates
are available by following
this link.

Notice that at least one of the authors of each paper accepted for
presentation in HotWeb 2006 must be registered.
All papers presented at the workshop will be published in formal
workshop proceedings and will be part of the IEEE Digital Library.